INTRO: We have been looking at John 1:1-5. Somewhere in eternity past, the godhead made a plan, and was that the second Person of the Triune God would become man in the fullness of time in the history of man. And We are in the time of year that we commemorate that time when the Word became flesh, and God became man. It is the time of the birth of Christ. In John 1:1, we are in the first point, the primary history of the Word. We have looked at the Word, the title of these verses. We have looked at the first point in the section of the primary history of the Word, “In the beginning was the Word…” I mentioned last message that I did not quite finish to my satisfaction on the words, ‘…in the beginning…’
So, this morning before we consider the words, “…and the Word was with God” let me add a few things to the last message. Go once more to Colossians 1. We talked about verses 9-14. And look once more at verse 15 (read). And then we asked, “Now, who is this image of the invisible God?” And I said, “Well, the appositive in the verse tells us. It is the firstborn of or over all creation! Then we saw that the next verse begins with the word ‘for’. It will give us the reason why Jesus is the firstborn of creation. And I said, “And before we look at that, if the JW doctrine is true, we would expect it to say this, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for He was the very first one ever created.” Is that not what you would expect if the JW’s are right? But now let me read what it says, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over or of all creation. For by Him all things were created! Wow! That is different from what one would expect |
